We received confirmation from Costco Janet that this is the single-largest purchase *ever* at this particular Costco location! 🔥🔥🔥
No live-action loading pics this time, but here's a shot of the full trailer and the in-progress-of-being-filled trailer
For size comparison, the receipt is longer than my steering wheel 😂
Yes, substantially so. As big as our orders are, they're still too small to get meaningful discounts; every distributor we've talked to has been double-digit % more expensive than going through Costco.
Costco has a concierge team to take care of us, led by Costco Mike. We coordinate on expected orders in late October / early November, then work with them on adjustments as needed based on supply constraints
Paper bags were donated this year by Not Just Paper in Durham NC -- they said donors paid for our invoice! 🥺
Here's (unexpectedly short) video of the bread trucks arriving, with their 5,104 loaves of bread:
Number of students we're serving across 14 elementary schools, with an added ~50ish loaf buffer for problems (loaf getting squished or torn open or etc)
Here's some video of volunteers getting all the goods sorted into the workstations
Many of these folks were instrumental in getting the pallets from the curb into the gym too 🥰
Here is our bag template. Each bag will have 18 items:
➡️ Cereal
➡️ Peanut butter
➡️ Chicken x2
➡️ Tuna x2
➡️ Brown beans
➡️ Black beans
➡️ Green beans
➡️ Corn
➡️ Mac & cheese
➡️ Ramen
➡️ Apple sauce
➡️ Granola bar
➡️ Oatmeal
➡️ Popcorn
➡️ Lance crackers
➡️ Bread
Turq and I decided to do our annual eagle pose tonight instead of waiting until the end and forgetting like we did in March 😆🦅
Sadly I had to leave soon thereafter b/c I'm very behind at work (tomorrow [Redacted] is going GA for enterprise customers on its major new product that I may or may not have played a role in 😆)
Will share more updates tomorrow!
Reminder of the volunteering details for those who are local:
They did! Costco Seth was in the trucks with Daniel and the pallet jack moving pallets to where I could get them, and Costco Mike was helping push the pallets from the curbside to the gym ☺️
Costco has been a *fantastic* partner for years now!
We fill out paperwork we have to print and snail mail to the NC Department of Revenue in Q1, and they mail us a refund check for it in Q3. It's like we make a zero interest loan to the Government for 6 months 😤
No, the company has an anti-nepotism policy so when Costco Janet came in they moved Costco Ryan to manage one of the warehouses in Raleigh (tweet from the 7th Annual is here:
Can you imagine how disappointing your life must be to become *such* a simp for a sexual predator and pedophile like Vic Mignogna that you stalk people to talk sh*t from behind a block? 🤣
Good talk 👍👍
Apparently. Note that this one went out of his way to reply to a totally unrelated charity thread
44 empty racks outside and another ~90 being re-used as carts, puts us at roughly 1,340 loaves of bread bagged thus far (~26%)
Another quick video of the action at about 7:30p EST:
I don't have a hard count on bags done, but we had 1 delivery already (Burton), 4 trucks pre-packed for delivery tomorrow AM, and about 2.5 more trucks' worth of bags ready for loading when those trucks get back
My best estimate is ~2,300 bags done (45%), way ahead of schedule!
Also one of my coworkers at [Redacted] showed up to help! 🥰
I'm likely going to miss all of tomorrow's festivities, because I've gotta work 😔
I'll pass on any updates I'm given 😆
My lower back hurts so bad rn 😂😔
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8TH ANNUAL
BULL CITY FOODRAISER
DAY 3
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Not many pics today b/c I had to work, living vicariously through the many volunteers (that's Turquoise in the last pic by the Cheerios)
The step team from Southern High School gave everyone a brief performance in addition to volunteering 🥰
And we've got some bags pre-bagged for tomorrow, so once the first deliveries are done we can run the next loads
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8TH ANNUAL
BULL CITY FOODRAISER
DAY 4
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WE ARE DONE BAGGING
**REPEAT: WE ARE DONE BAGGING**
We've got the Lakewood allotment on the stage, and deliveries for the last 2 schools are pre-loaded for delivery tomorrow AM when their site teams are ready:
Turquoise (@PrkrsProfessors) is chatting with local media about the history 🥰
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The facts in the 303 case were stipulated, meaning both sides agreed to them and the Court is required to take them as true for purposes of making its decision
You can have a judgment set aside under Rule 60(b)(2) for "newly discovered evidence that, with reasonable diligence, could not have been discovered"
But – as the media coverage shows – that evidence *could* have been discovered with reasonable diligence
2/2 @H2OMocassin
There's no fraud when the State of Colorado agreed to it
Even if were, the deadline for a Rule 60(b)(3) motion to set aside for fraud would have been 1 year after the trial court's ruling -- so that deadline already passed back in 2018